“Boot Making and Mending - Including Repairing, Lasting, and Finishing”

With Numerous Engravings and Diagrams

Edited by Paul N. Hasluck

(1890s)

Published by Cassell and Company Limited

London, Paris, New York and Melbourne

Hardback volume in the original green cloth binding and red lettering

With additional reading list insert for shoemakers by London bookshop E. Pouteau, Gray’s Inn Road

Fine condition

No fading, no inscription, no foxing

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An informative volume, originally produced for people to learn shoemaking as a trade from home. It has the particularity of having rich and clear diagrams and descriptions of techniques not found in other shoemaking texts and commonly used in West End tradition.